[Vinesauce] Vinny - Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1
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Hey Vin! Can you plz play yume 2kki on ynoproject since you are on weird moody game kick recently.
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It's been fucking wild to hear Vinny over the years go from talking about The Room like a normal "what the fuck is this movie" fan, to talking about Tommy and Greg as human beings and the behind the scenes weirdness, to meeting Tommy at a con, to talking about how The Disaster Artist was a fantastic book, to *INTERVIEWING GREG SESTERO* , to finally going "So, Greg Sestero wanted me to mention that he's doing this thing. Eh, I'm probably not going, but I said I'd let people know."
@Jesse Filmmaker This kid will be named Albert Einstein. Or Finger.
@@flashmozzg W A L T U H
Fetal Position Die is now my favourite vinny quote
Classic Vinny.
(if anybody is wondering, these three magical words are said at 40:53, and 43:25)
@@archive94And at 51:16 as well.
Now that I think about it, it makes a lot of sense that the main character is an electrician. They end up in a lot of places they'll never see again.
It also plays into the wiring puzzles.
What do you mean by that?
@@majjplejs7270 Liminal spaces are the way they are because they're representative of places you can only vaguely recall
Fun fact you can take a shower in a crusty liminal locker room in Sonic Adventure, too.
I want to see what you are mentioning but I have no idea what to search to find it.
@@trulyinfamous It's in the Casino level
Sonic Adventure was such a great game, and for minor details like that.
The cutscenes and voice acting though
being a fan of "liminal" type environments, this does seem like a super neat game personally. the ending to this was alright, i think it could've gone without the voice at the end imo but that's just me LOL, its not entirely a bad thing either
Every use of liminal space lately just HAS to be some spooky or sinister horror game apparently. I just wanna hang out and explore neat spaces.
@@Fishfish458 i never really got horror vibes from this game. It has moments where it makes you feel on edge but thats about it
What other awful takes do you have? Write it more embarrassing this time too, more lowercase maybe?
@@whiteydiamond ɪғ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴘʟᴀʏ ᴀ ʟɪᴍɪɴᴀʟ sᴘᴀᴄᴇ ɢᴀᴍᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀ ᴍᴏɴsᴛᴇʀ ɪɴ ɪᴛ ᴛʜᴇɴ ᴄʜᴇᴄᴋ ᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ 1000 ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ɢᴀᴍᴇs ᴏɴ sᴛᴇᴀᴍ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ʟɪᴍɪɴᴀʟ sᴘᴀᴄᴇ. ʟᴇᴛ ᴜs ᴇɴᴊᴏʏ ᴏᴜʀ ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍᴄᴏʀᴇ ᴀᴛᴍᴏsᴘʜᴇʀɪᴄ ᴘsʏᴄʜᴏʟᴏɢɪᴄᴀʟ ᴛʜʀɪʟʟᴇʀ ᴡʜɪʟᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴘʟᴀʏ ʜᴏʀʀᴏʀ ɢᴀᴍᴇs ᴡ/ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴄʀᴇᴇᴘʏᴘᴀsᴛᴀ ғᴀɴɢᴀᴍᴇ sᴛᴇʀᴇᴏᴛʏᴘᴇ ɪᴍᴀɢɪɴᴀʙʟᴇ.
@@whiteydiamond sorry, i guess?
I loved this stream. I have a weird fascination with malls too, but even so, while the funny, high energy Sunday streams are great, some of my favorites have been chill, cool, weird stuff like this. The designs of the areas were so strange and creative, I couldn't look away. Interested to see the next chapter!
It's funny that people, myself included, have had dreams of places like this. I guess that's just how our brains work when sleeping and dreaming up locations, and just mashing stuff together.
Kinda like the distortions seen in AI generated images, oddly
based Corto enjoyer
@@painovoimaton You know it.
I mean, I like this for what it is. I feel like the kind of people to be harsh towards this game ("you can't turn liminal spaces into a game, maaaan") will never like this kind of thing no matter what. Maybe I've just learned to appreciate walking-simulator-esque games ever since The Stanley Parable.
I love walking simulators but when they are dead hallways with no value, I can't get on board. This may as well be a unity asset flip while telling you to imagine your own spookiness. Stanley Parable is not remotely comparable to a game like this one.
Something about the music
not knowing the exact source of where it's coming from on the map plus the unintelligible voices make it feel unsettling yet somehow calming and bit nostalgic
it's a strange feeling I can't describe, which I guess is the whole point of the game but I really like the idea of "liminal music" to accompany "liminal spaces".
I can't believe Vinny stared dead at the spooky ghost and didn't even realize it.
You mean 1:15:26? I assumed he decided to ignore it for the funnies
I managed to miss it too, same for whatever was in the spooky bathrooms. I just thought chat was fucking with him.
@@MatthewPherigo That's the one.
@@PanSpaceman I'm actually not sure if the ghost can even get you, but it also shows up in the pool/slide area, Vinny walked right past several pools where the ghost is just at the bottom staring up at you.
@@boanoah6362 well that's nice and horrifying regardless
Vinny's memory of the trough urinal opened up an ancient memory in me.
I only saw ONE in the 90's when I was in Kindergarten, and I have many memories of all the kids trying to crowd it as much as possible,
and we would attempt to fill it up all at once.
We would get about halfway before it would start to drain.
This is certainly one of the best Liminal Space games, people are sceptic about the plot thing but I guess you can only go so far with the basic concept, I hope they make it work
But there is almost no plot. I don't blame them for the decisions yet, trying to add something to the gameplay, after all, doing stuff like playing VR gmod liminal maps keeps me very entertained but only up to a certain point. Plus, he's trying to make a healthy mix between backrooms as in empty infinite liminal places and story about going in and out and having creatures in. I also 100% prefer the first over the second but the amount of plot is so minimal I'm okay with it, plus, it gives excuses to create dangerous-looking backrooms that the main character has a reason to go through instead of turning back and trying to find a less dangerous route, because, there is none, he's just trying to find a way out
Is Yume Nikki a liminal space game ? Now that I think about it.
The sound design and little niceties leave much to be desired
honestly the second pool area with the faucets you could move looks comfy as hell, would lounge there
vinny never realized that there was a genuine monster in the infinite shower room
The monster condom for the magnum dong
@@JacobKinsley expand dong
I always love watching Vin play games like this, it's very relaxing and even if it's a a trend with a lot of examples of mediocre games, I think the environments are still fun to watch. Vinny's commentary is always a treat.
"I'm just fascinated by this bizarre shit we're looking at." Hard agree, lol.
1:15:25
He completely ignored the duendee
Somewhere Between Hell and Nowhere is a banger of a title.
Personally i never understood why liminal spaces were used as a type of setting for indie horror games. Most of them, especially the pool themed liminal spaces always felt like the type of places i'd feel so relaxed in that i would geniunley fall asleep in
So happy he gives this game another look! I remember the last time was ruined by vinnys PC crashing :(
Kudos to the developer for trying to "gameify" the liminal space genre, but I think it detracts from the liminal aspect of the game which was my favorite part in the demo.
It does make sense, in a way to keep it from just being rushed through at least. I'm just glad they didn't shove in sPOOKY MONSTERS that chase you.
Its strange, because I'm not sure what it's supposed to be. Without any actual urgency, it's really just a walking simulator. And having a walking simulator in neat environments is cool, but its hard to know when it overstays its welcome. When the point is everything looking the same, it's easy to feel like 'yea neat i get the idea, what's next?'
Like people have been having a sufficient experience with this style of thing with literally single images. Sometimes the still angles give an even stronger liminal feeling, where the expansiveness makes it feel overly familiar and cozy. Like the line between the traditional semi uncomfortable liminal space experience becomes empty nostalgia instead
turning those gumball machines elicits this full 5 senses experience for me. I can taste it, I can chew it, I can smell it, I can hear it, I can see it.
i can touch, i can hear, i can feel and see
so much more than a fantasy...
i remember these in my local mall,,, along with the tiny character themed scooters
This game is where dreams go to have shower thoughts.
55:52 Made me choke on my water. Especially the delayed reaction
really enjoy these kinda streams with vin, nice chill topics and tickles the brain in just the right way like he said
Something about massive infinite water structures is very compelling and I don't know why.
An ironically wet game for a very dried trend. Don't get me wrong I like and have some attachment to liminal stuff from a bit ago but it unfortunately is one of the many things to get too mainstream and oversaturated with low quality stuff so it's hard for me to be at all into this.
It comes way too much from people attempting to manufacture the concept of “liminal space” and duplicate it, which almost always fails and completely misses the point of why liminal space is interesting in the first place.
Liminal spaces can’t really be created, they can only come to exist on their own under a specific set of circumstances and characteristics. Attempting to describe and replicate it only serves to destroy the intrigue that it holds. Anyone can point at an empty mall and say “look, liminal so creepy”, but it’s a lot more than that.
This game does a much better job at emulating the feel of a liminal space than other games I’ve seen/played. Not every part of the game elicits that feeling and just ends up feeling like a copy, but other parts (like sections of the indoor waterpark) did do a pretty good job at replicating it.
@@d00gz_ so did it do a good job replicating it or was the intrigue destroyed you cant have both
@@hypno5690 it can have both considering there are different parts of the game
@@d00gz_ I have to disagree on why manufactured liminal spaces often times don't work. It's not that a liminal space has to "occur naturally", it's that bringing intentionality into aspects of the design can break the illusion. Too often, liminal spaces are made to be a setting for a horror story, puzzle platformer, or grand conspiracy story. When someone designs a liminal space with those things in mind, the player/viewer can suss out those design choices because the illusion of "liminal" is so specific and fragile. It's made even worse when the media in question doesn't fully commit to those design choices, and you're left with half baked story/gameplay and the aforementioned "spooky empty mall, wow _so_ liminal 🙄" situation.
I'm just as tired of people complaining about the concept. There's infinite media out there, go somewhere, anywhere else if you don't like it.
The lazy river grandma immediately killed me
@Joshua Simonson PantheraDraws
Reminds me of lazy river Goofy
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There is no hope for you under the water
apparently it killed grandma too
This is a phenomenal sentence out of context
This happened to my buddy Eric.
That's rough buddie
Pretty sure I said this last time he played this but what the hell, I'll say it again.
When I was a kid we would occasionally take vacations to the Wisconsin Dells during winter, when it's off season. There are plenty of small indoor pools to enjoy when the outdoor parks are closed. The lazy river section reminds me so heavily of those times. There were maybe one or two other families who would do the same thing, but for the most part it was just me and my brothers swimming. The specific pool I'm thinking of had an ancient jungle temple kind of theme. The fact that there was nobody else there made it so much more surreal.
Sounds like the Mount Olympus indoor pool
Oh shit, my family still sometimes does this exact thing. We always go to the same place, the Wilderness Lodge. We had some times we went to Mt Olympus or went during the summer, but we always went during the winter because it was cheaper and less crowded/stressful.
Typically when we go these days, its with other family friends so we can all get together and do shit.
@@Gamxin After looking at some pictures I think it was Kalahari. The look of it rings the most bells to me. But my memory is incredibly fuzzy going back that far.
@@CobraCreates that place rocks
21:24 It's uncanny because I drank a shit ton of Orange Soda when I was super young up until my mid teens. I hardly ever drank water. Now I rarely ever drink Orange Soda
I love this game and wish I had a way to play it. I guess it's a personal thing, but this game is so immersive I can smell these areas and I mean that in the most positive way. The way malls smelled in the 80s when they were newer structures. Department stores. The water park areas full of real foliage. I hope this game could be in VR someday if only to chill in the water park and ride the tube down the lazy river.
I also have that odd fixation on malls, to the point of recurring dreams about malls and weird stores, and some of my most intensely nostalgic memories involving 90s malls. I'd love to know why that's such a thing. It's not *just* malls, other things do it for me too, but there does seem to be a throughline of shopping amongst them. Feckin' weird, man.
I find myself in the same mall and theme park often. Though, shopping is rarely part of the experience. It's exploration, escape, or I have a goal to accomplish outside the stores.
Mine is an exaggerated version of a luxury mall I used to visit, but the corner arcade is derived from images of old Korean(I think) vending machine blocks and visits to Gameworks. There are many thick pedestrian bridges outside between buildings.
I appreciate you sharing your thoughts. Thank you for reading.
It's the inhumanity of the structure. I find myself fascinated by the architecture because it's like they take actual architectural features like lancet arches, valances, columns, deckways, and atriums, and then they just smudge them a bit. Just enough that if you know what they're aping you can go "Oh that's an [insert feature here]" but are otherwise just part of a monolith. Everything's sort of an off kilter jumble, and each store is a blast of colour trying to break through the sea of white noise to grab your attention.
I wish I could experience that stuff. It's only maybe a couple times a year I ever dream. Every other time I'm just lying down, then before I know it I'm awake again.
Amongst?
Please help, I can't leave the funny astronaut game back in 2020.
I find it really odd that this place is so huge and the implication is that it was made for a ton of people, yet the food court is so small consisting of only one little booth and a couple seats to eat at.
House on the Rock vibes
I really think people miss the point of this game. Everyone complains that is not really "liminal" cause in not unacanny or creepy, but I don't think its trying to be creepy, is trying to be "familiar".
Hence the name, "Anemoiapolis", Anomoia being the word for "Nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known. The place you are locked in Is not trying to be so much unsettling, but comforting, give the guests a feeling of familiarity, despite having never being there in the first place. And That I think it does a great job with.
"the golf balls we made a long the way" made me spit my water into my work laptop
An Rainforest Cafe done with mapping like these areas would be somehow incredibly satisfying for me.
Truly a bunch of pools
10:08 ram ranch begins to play full blast
🐟
Id unironically stay at a liminal space hotel/resort
hotels are inherently liminal (depending on what definition you go on)
I think trying to add context and turning the liminal space/backrooms thing into games or other media kind of subtracts from what made them memorable and creepy to begin with. It’s a kind of feeling that probably can’t be sustained in a medium like that. It’s much more interesting, to me, to feel that dread and curiosity and unease all at once instead of wondering if the monster’s behind the next corner or not, or whether or not there’s a chance of escape, like slow-burn horror stuff is wont to do. Probably best that it stays in gmod and digital art.
Holy shit, agreed. Literally speaking my mind in a similar post. I feel the exact same way.
ok but what if you had a skateboard in the backrooms and you could just pull some crazy tricks in there, that would be badass
@@InsanityOtter983 Sounds fun, like a procedurally generated tony hawk game. The design would get boring quick tho, just yellow everywhere
@@InsanityOtter983 this would unironically work. The juxtaposition is so stupid that I think it'd be wholly unique as it's own thing.
@@TehSkullKid not if you have to compete against the backrooms shadow monster
I saw manlybadasshero play the demo of this and I loved it. My autism brain loves liminal spaces and backrooms like stuff, so much so that it was one of the primary topics of my college senior thesis: it was primarily about how liminal spaces are a very good example of a new form of surrealistic art especially environmental design in surrealism. Very happy to see the chapter one release and I think I might stream it myself
I enjoy this type of laid back gameplay and commentary from time to time. This was a cool game, although I didn't really care for a couple of cheesy moments here and there (the overdone moving mannequin, the voice at the end, the main character talking in general)
I just watched a hour and a half long video where a guy walks around empty video game environments for a vast majority of the video.
The concept of entertainment is a strange thing to ponder.
I've got what could be construed as photographic memory, and I can't remember all the way back to infancy. though, I can remember things that happened to me when I was only a year or so old.
Very cool! 47:05 so glad you won the Streamer Awards :)
I’ve been waiting for this game finally
Honestly this game isn’t nearly as unsettling to me as something like The Complex, but hey to each their own!
Imagine a setting where the water is all pitch black 💀
Or piss yellow.
If Vinnty liked this game, would he enjoy Yume Nikki?
begone weeb
hes already played it
@@RorenX You're thinking of Joel
@@Chromed39 same person??
I wonder if the guy who played Elvis made an Elvis tulpa.
This was awesome, aside from the last bit
Might as well bring some spare swimtrunks or swimwear in the case of how many wet liminal spaces are out there and you find yourself in one
Ah, Paul Blart’s limbo
Liminma balls
What I find encouraging about this despite the liminal fad (or will it endure?) is that it's kinda like Myst. I will enjoy if people made Mysty games in "uncanny" settings (or really any.)
Am I the only one who sees big empty spaces like in this game and just want to roll around on the floor for some reason.
I'm 32 btw
Some of the carpets in there looked comfy and soft. Legit
cat like impulse for when you see a normally cluttered room meant for seatings and things and people but instead its so vastly empty you could almost run and frolic for no good reason other than "it feels so different with nothing here"
Anemoiapolis sounds like it would be the name of a brazilian city
i thought french
cool game, hope the rest of it gets completed
This is the perfect vod for an afternoon nap
I love seeing Vinny play these liminal games
1:15:25 The mama mia ghost
I am very much the type of viewer who enjoys games like this. I love liminal stuff, it's super cozy. Maybe it's because I'm high, but I could literally watch this all goddamn day without issue.
will there ever be a Chapter 2?
I NEED to send that short video 1:28:16 to a friend REAL BAD, does anyone know where the original is?
The ceramic tiles on both sides are 2 different sizes.
Vinny struggling with the first “puzzle” was really frustrating to watch
Literally stared at the sign and read the instructions out loud. Truly a gamer moment.
1:04:17 start the fucking stream Vinji!
I LOVE Daylight savings time. I don't get ANY of your complaints. I work nightshift and to be quite honest I was getting tired of seeing the sun just as I got off work- and yes I'm being serious. When DST kicked in, it shaved a whole hour off my shift, but god it was nice to go home, and it's still dark out.
I wish they would just leave it at the springtime one year round.
"Liminal spaces". back in my day we'd call those surreal or abstract spaces.
Nipper maps?
As someone who used the topic of liminal spaces in her senior thesis I think that the naming of it to liminal spaces was helpful because it put a more specific name on a very common and previously-nameless subsect of surrealistic environment design.
It helped put a face to a super long lived but unnamed genre of surrealism
I think "uncanny" was and is a better name for them. These places are uncanny in much the same way things that resembles humans but aren't fall into the uncanny valley. It's close to what we know and are familiar with, but it's not that thing. "Liminal" always had too much of the meme cringe for me to like it.
@@NicoNicoNessieSub I can see that. But also the idea behind surreal and abstract imagery is so broad and subjective that I dont see how using the term "Liminal" actually makes the concept easier to pin down. It just ends up being another word for "uncanny", and I think due to the words meme status it sort've in way made what counts as a "liminal space" into this hyper specific type of surreal environment.(Bathrooms, offices and the like) While a long time ago what counted as a surreal space was a lot more diverse.
@@gallusgallusdomesticus281 yeah, it basically got adopted by the vaporwave crowd as another hyper specific aesthetic, losing the concept as an actual descriptor. If you look up liminal spaces, you'll even find colors associated with the concept, which makes zero sense unless it's being seen as nothing more than a visual aesthetic.
Anyone else hear the *Illbleed* scare chord in the closing elevator door sfx?
There’s something I really like about these “boring” more chill atreams. Especially games like this one never really know what’s happening.
The fact you know about Wiseau and Sestero alone earns you a Sub.
Oh hai, Mark.
35:42 was really satisfying.
This game is pretty, but there's a lot of niceties it could have. Lot's of sound design improvements, like when you fall in the water, would be nicer to have a big satisfying sound, also the sound to be different underwater. The sound of you getting out of the water, slapping your ape feet on the deck, and water dripping from your clothes. The sound and action of jumping on the diving board, the sound and visuals of the water sprayers, a nicer animation of the water spewing out. Stuff like that really makes a game amazing. I think if you're gonna make one of these wet liminal space games, sound should be as big of a focus as the fancy visuals.
I feel like this place would be very fun to run around in, hear your footsteps
POOLS does it pretty well if you havent watched vinnys playthrough of that
I think liminal spaces are a tired trend and I roll my eyes whenever I hear of the "backrooms", but I was actually pleasantly surprised by this game. And I'd say it's probably because it's actually kinda comfortable in a way, it's pretty nice to walk around in some of these environments. Because of that, I kinda feel like this game should have just been linear instead of having this hub world with a kinda unnecessary ticket system, in order to have a more focused and purposeful structure in between levels. I've always thought that the horror aspect of liminal spaces was something very frequently failed (which made the genre so tired), so I was pleased to see that the game be subtle with it, with no evil super duper creepy monster chasing you or some overarching conspiracy plot explaining why this liminal space exists. IMO there's absolutely no need for an explanation for liminal spaces. Just let them exist and be their own thing.
Of course, that's until the ending plays. I won't say it "ruined" the game, cause that's a strong word (my memory of the rest of the game is still positive) but it was really disappointing to see that what the creator had in mind all along was just the same lame garbage we've always been seeing from liminal spaces. Of fucking course there's gotta be a story to this place. It can't just be an exploration game with a cool atmosphere. The fucking Marvel post-credits-like dialogue really seals the deal. Every liminal space fan ultimately has the same goddamn brain. All we can do now is pray that the story in Chapter 2 will be sparse enough so we can continue pretending it doesn't exist.
I made a long comment on BadassHero's gameplay on how disappointing this game is. The demo was absolutely amazing! Sure it was a walking simulator with a few black figures here and there, but the look and feeling was something I've been wanting to see in Backrooms games for the last few years.
Unfortunately, chapter 1 gives us a badly designed mall that isn't big enough to be considered liminal, and the elevator mechanic is ripped from another Backrooms game Vinny played, except in that game it was utilised properly. I shouldn't get worked up over this again, but the dev had promise. Following the trends, it seems the dev will probably steal even more elements from other backrooms games, probably because they ran out of good ideas after constructing the poolrooms. Expect a tall noodle monster to run from in the next chapter, it'll happen given the path this game is walking.
It's no longer liminal because we know it's inhabited, hence the mood of this game is ruined.
somebody bring fucktons of sharpies, paper, and double sided tape
That's new. Vinny play horror game outside October.
Who made that animation at the end?
13:26
Broken escalator becomes stairs
I am extremely disappointed in vin for not completing the golf
It’s endless
@@JRI22N you're endless
I'm glad the dev was vindicated.
There were a few streamers saying 'We won't stream this demo' a couple of years ago due to the protracted development cycle.
Also watching this after enduring the jape at the Resort Level to figure out how to get though it. It's like haha, nice one. How the eff do I really get out of here?
I think the tickets should be red. It'd be very Mirror's Edge and also make it less annoying.
yes thank you
Isn't the entire point of a liminal space to be unsettling, unknowable and generally uncanny? Doesn't the necessity to "solve" these spaces remove their inherent abnormality by turning them into puzzles or problems instead of environments to experience and, by their very nature, be disturbed by? Like, the entire point of a "liminal space" is that it's familiar, but one step removed, which is why they're disturbing. "Gamifying" something of that nature just seems to defeat its purpose entirely. It's one thing to experience the space by existing in it, maybe even discovering an "exit," but to encapsulate it with the trappings of menu-driven puzzles just feels like it turns it into something else entirely. If you removed the Portals from Portal, would you have a liminal space game?
My thoughts exactly. This appears to just be a fairly shallow puzzle(?) game with too much empty space. I think the balance would have to be making a cryptic puzzle game in the vain of P.T. to capitalize on the sense of mystery and intrigue. Less telegraphed progression would make you question everything and force you into a sense of uncertainty.
I think this game is not really meant to be liminal, at least not in the unnerving sense. Anemioa is the word for "the feeling of familiarity or deja-vu from a place you've never seen before." And thats exactly what I would describe this game as. Despite the a place being a this abandoned amalgamation of rooms, is oldy comforting, because they are all places we are familiar with.
@@moonstone4832 No one would ever say that if the game wasn't named it
9:09 hey, not all of illinois is this place!
just. most of it
If I was stuck in the backrooms it would be nice to have some gobbo narrating it and doing funnies
MIRROR UNIVERSE VINNY ISN'T REAL HE CAN'T HURT ME
I feel like you'd burn more calories chewing gum than whatever benefit swallowing would give you.
Lots of areas in this game freak me out, due to how their layouts are so similar to maze like buildings I've been lost in during nightmares and weird dreams. The darker areas of them are even the same level of darkness in those dreams too. The dark bathroom one was the worst for me. It's almost identical to one I've had a nightmare about before.
Vinny missing all the E to observe prompts. Yeah he's not paying attention to the top of the screen at all.
1:03:58 Wait, what if we don't remember our infancy because, yknow how newborn babies have like twice as many brain cells as a kindergartener? What if all the infant memories are stored in the brain cells that die in that period???
that's not how memories work
i wonder if anyone told vinny that david byrne performed at the oscars
Nightmare in between waterpark or just Florida?
Isn't recreating the feeling of being in the womb/being born the concept of rebirthing as a way to treat attachment issues on small children?
yeah but it doesn't really work and killed a kid so
I'm decently unnerved by open areas in malls and theaters, but when he got to the dibgy bathroom section...i felt...threatened?? It was so fucking unsettling and dark and unsafe. I would straight up rather look at a gianr monster than go in there for 5 seconds.
Fuck I can smell this place
the presence of an actual Liminal Man is kind of a letdown ~imo~, but the stress of having to find tickets to make any progress actually kind of works, the same sort of thing happens in dreams
I really like this